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Just a brief outline of my current Workshop agenda. If you'd like more details, please feel free to: |
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Cut Back
Reverse Appliqué - Make A Miniature
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| Landscapes Make a landscape using textured fabrics and learn how to dye and bleach your own fabrics to achieve stunning results. Using freezer paper or Bondaweb appliqué, you can make a wallhanging or a picture suitable for framing. Hand or machine work. |
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| Little
Houses Use appliqué to make a wallhanging using blocks on point with houses, trees and paths. This is one of my own original designs, which makes a nice Christmas hanging. A very popular workshop. Machine work. |
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| Flying
Geese See how easy it is to make 3D flying geese! I used this technique to create my quilt Setting The Goose Free, which was selected for the Under The Covers exhibition in 1999. Another popular and versatile workshop - you can use these geese to make a wallhangings, bags and waistcoats. |
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| Felt
and Nuno Felt Have a fun day learning how to make felt. Nuno Felt is a lightweight felt on a muslin base, which is ideal for embroidery. You can use both types of felt to make bags, hats, waistcoats and wallhangings. |
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| Jewellery Use felt, pelmet vilene and machine embroidery to make earrings and brooches. I'll supply the findings, designs, ideas and encouragement - if you'll supply the enthusiasm! |
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| Appliqué
Dabble Day Learn the various types of hand and machine appliqué - perfect for quilting and embroidery. This is a technique learning day - and appliqué is my specialty! |
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Upon A Quilt An unusual way to make a quilt... Make a three layer sandwich and then keep adding and adding. It's a little like being back in school - using potato printing and you own individual touch. It helps to have some knowledge of free machine quilting or embroidery, but I'll give tuition as well. |
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| Machine
Quilting Dabble Day Another technique day. Learn about machine quilting and how to use those embroidery stitches and the walking foot. Revolutionise your quilting! |
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| Innovation
Dabble Day I'll show you how to use some of the new products on the market to enhance your quilt making. Image transfer, 3D paints, puff paints - and more. We can use these new skills to make a sample book. |
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| Jazzy
Fabric Books Use up all your scraps - along with some lace, buttons, 3D paint and other embellishments, to make a fabric book for all your precious memories. Photos can be transferred to fabric and pockets made for all those special trinkets. |
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| Microwave
Dyeing Learn how to use dyes in the microwave - you'll create some sumptuous colours in an amazingly short time. We'll also look at how to use this technique in your work. |
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| Indigo
Dyeing Use the queen of dyes and a variety of resist techniques to create some wonderful dyed fabrics, lace and threads. Dyes provided. |
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| Textured
Dimensions - One Day Workshop A day's adventure into the world of texture! Using soldering irons, hot air guns and free machine embroidery, you'll combine plastics and paints to make a stunning small panel for framing or mounting. |
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Textured
Dimensions - Two Day Workshop |
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| Talks Listing : 2007 | ||
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Traditional Start - With A Contemporary
Twist We'll take a tour through some of my quilts - from the first to the latest creations! |
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Of Ways With Appliqué I use appliqué quite extensively in my textile art. Come along and learn lots of useful hints and tips which you can use in your own work. |
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| Innovative
Quilt Making I'll talk about some of the techniques used by modern quilters - and how you can introduce innovative new techniques into your own quilts. |
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